The application of advanced engineering to tennis racket design has influenced the nature
of the sport. As a result, the International Tennis Federation has established rules to limit …

Auxetic materials behave unconventionally under deformation, which enhances material
properties such as resistance to indentation and energy absorption. Auxetics, therefore …

Auxetics are materials, metamaterials or structures which expand laterally in at least one
cross-sectional plane when uniaxially stretched, that is, have a negative Poisson's ratio …

The tennis racket has developed since the origins of Lawn Tennis in the 1870s. This study
investigated how the tennis racket developed from 1874 to 2017, using measurements and …

The present study explores the comprehensive composite material selection methodology of
a tennis racket involving coupled Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) and numerical …

Tennis racket properties are of interest to sports engineers and designers as it allows them
to evaluate performance, review trends and compare designs. This study explored …

Statistical shape analysis, or morphometrics, is a technique commonly used in evolutionary
biology to summarise a population of samples. Theoretical morphometrics extends the …

Composite materials have given manufacturers the freedom to develop a broad range of
tennis rackets, allowing them to change key parameters such as the structural stiffness …

The normal and the oblique impact of a tennis ball with a racket has been studied. An
accurate setup has been built in order to provide consistent initial conditions for the impacts …

Stereo camera systems have been used to track markers attached to a racket, allowing its
position to be obtained in three-dimensional (3D) space. Typically, markers are manually …